About ten days ago I told you how they were sneaking across the UK borders in droves. Now they know that once there, they can do whatever they want and won’t be deported thanks to the European Court of Human Rights.

In a test case ahead of more than 200 similar actions pending against the UK, the Strasbourg judges decreed that the UK’s duty to protect people against torture or inhuman treatment is ”absolute”.

The case involved two Somalis facing enforced return to Mogadishu after receiving convictions in the UK for serious criminal offences.

The European Court of Human Rights awarded Abdisamad Adow Sufi and Abdiaziz Ibrahim Elmi, both currently in UK immigration detention centres, 14,500 euros and 7,500 euro respectively for costs and expenses in bringing the case.

Sufi, 24, claimed asylum in the UK in 2003 on the grounds that he belonged to a minority clan persecuted by Somali militia. His account was rejected as not credible and asylum refused.

Elmi, 42, arrived in the UK in 1988 and was granted leave to stay as a refugee in 1989, renewed indefinitely in 1993.

After convictions for a number of serious criminal offences – including burglary and threats to kill in Sufi’s case, and robbery and supplying class A drugs cocaine and heroine in Elmi’s case – they were issued with deportation orders.

Their UK appeals that they risked being ill-treated or killed if returned to Mogadishu were rejected.

The European Court of Human Rights blocked their deportation pending a hearing of their appeals to the Strasbourg court.

On Tuesday the seven-judge court ruled unanimously that deporting them would breach the Human Rights Convention Article 3 which bans ”inhuman or degrading treatment”.

The ruling said: ”The court reiterated that the prohibition of torture and of inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment is absolute, irrespective of the victims’ conduct.

”Consequently, the applicants’ behaviour, however undesirable or dangerous, could not be taken into account.”

Maybe the UK should re-think that little issue called sovereignty. More on the way all the time, here.

“the Strasbourg judges decreed that the UK’s duty to protect people against torture or inhuman treatment is ”absolute”.”

Clearly the same duty to protect does NOT apply to the British people. The so called Court of Human Rights never seems to take the rights and safety of the indigenous people into consideration. It should more aptly be named: The European Court of Criminal’s Rights.